About Trap Shooting

Trap Shooting

A practice or competition event will consist of shooting two 25 target rounds for a total of 50 targets from the 16-yard station. Up to five athletes (squad) will occupy the stations on a trap field. Station one is assigned the “squad leader”.

Trap Field

The trap field is the area of a shooting range where trap shooting occurs. Each field contains shooting stations (typically concrete walkways with yardage markers) and a trap house.

The trap house is the structure in front of the stations from which the clay targets are launched. Only facility personnel shall enter and maintain the trap house. A cone or flag will be displayed when the trap house requires maintenance and shooters are required to exit their shooting station and make firearms safe until the trap house maintenance is completed and the cone or flag is removed.

Ammunition Recommendation

Ammunition specifications must meet the use requirements of the shooting range.

Targets At Each Station

Five shots are taken at each of the five stations. After the first five shots are completed by the entire squad, each shooter will move to a new station by:

Verifying the gun is unloaded.

With the chamber open and the shotgun pointed in a safe direction, rotate in a clockwise manner to the next station.

Station one will move to station two, two to three, three to four, four to five, and five to one.

Station five will rotate to their right moving away from the station four shooter who is moving to station five and continue to walk behind the other shooters to station one.

Await the “START” command from the scorekeeper.

The squad leader is the first to shoot in each round.

Repeat process until all shooters have each shot 25 targets.

No shooter will move to the next station until the last target in a round is completed.

About Us

The Washington State High School Clay Target League is a member of the USA High School Clay Target League, a division of the USA Clay Target League – a non-profit corporation. The League is the independent provider of clay target shooting sports as an extracurricular co-ed and adaptive activity for high schools and students in grades 6 through 12. The League's priorities are safety, fun, and marksmanship – in that order. Read More